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Teresa Stewart-Sykes from Dorset Council advocates DCR!

Here’s a good example from Dorset Council showing how the Dorset Care Record helps social care staff on a daily basis: “This client has a number of health issues, so I was looking up which teams were involved with her and to check if she had been referred to the Memory Assessment Service. I found out that she was being seen in the diabetic foot clinic, she had visits from the District Nurses to dress her legs and that she had bloods taken to investigate her memory but no referral had been made to the memory assessment service or community mental health team as yet.

Dr Rob Willington standing with a microphone

Dr Rob Willington: Shared records have the great potential to reduce harm and improve care

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change,” is a famous quote from author Mary Shelley.
Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch hospital consultant Dr Rob Willington used this to highlight some of the concerns colleagues may have over the introduction of computerised shared health and social care records.

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Dr Matt Thomas, smiling with a stethoscope around his neck.

DCR wins approval from hospital consultant

The Dorset Care Record has elevated our ability to look at the patient’s record above that provided by the Summary Care Record. As it has a user friendly interface and with no smart card required I can access it anywhere and get the latest information from primary care on my patients.

Most recently it has been of use in seeing who has been immunised for flu so allowing us to a make the correct choices around prophylaxis when they have been exposed.

Dr Matt Thomas (centre), Consultant Geriatrician, Poole hospital.